Mask aligner is so difficult to build, can you buy Dutch technology for hundreds of trillions?

Mask aligner is so difficult to build, can you buy Dutch technology for hundreds of trillions?

High-end mask aligner is now in a relative monopoly situation all over the world. In fact, we already know that ASML is the most representative mask aligner manufacturer in the world. This Dutch company has become a world-famous technology company with this technology. Because China's chips are sanctioned, many chip manufacturers refuse to produce Kirin chips independently developed for Huawei, which will lead to a small number of Kirin chips and bring difficulties to the subsequent development of new chip technology. So someone asked, can't we spend a lot of money to buy a mask aligner from AMSL? 654.38+00000000000000 If you don't sell it, it means 654.38+000000000000000, and 654.38+000000000000000 if you don't sell it, it means 654.38+000000000000000. Can you buy Dutch technology for hundreds of trillions?

Indeed, from the businessman's point of view, as long as the profit is high enough, a solution to the problem will be found. Do you know that even in the monopoly position of the industry, the market value of the whole company in ASML is at the level of $654.38+33 billion? So, if you spend trillions just for a mask aligner, it is estimated that you can still buy it. But the main problem will change from not being able to buy it to being studied after buying it. In fact, reverse research is an ongoing scientific research model in many countries. Dishonorable, but efficient.

If we are facing huge profits now, ASML is willing to provide us with a mask aligner with the latest technology, and this mask aligner can work smoothly for production. But the lithography part of chip manufacturing has been solved. What about the rest? Just because the United States chose the node of lithography does not mean that they are helpless at other nodes. In fact, the whole chip manufacturing is a continuous industry, and we in China also have excellent links in it, but it should still be difficult for the whole industry chain to provide it by itself.

For example, we bought a mask aligner from ASML to do reverse research, so as to reduce the time cost of our independent research. At this time, people will find that the combination may not be the most difficult, but the most difficult thing will be to produce all kinds of parts and raw materials needed by a mask aligner. Manufacturers who provide these things are basically prohibited from selling chips to China and even some other countries.

This is why ASML people dare to say that even if they give China a complete mask aligner drawing, they can't do it. From a practical point of view, what they said is not wrong. When we look at the list of shareholders in ASML, we find that all kinds of enterprises related to the chip industry, both upstream and downstream, are shareholders. As shareholders, they can not only get a steady stream of orders, but also get the support of ASML's latest products. But from this perspective, the so-called monopoly is ignored. Because it is meaningless to talk about monopoly in front of power.

Therefore, instead of spending so much money on equipment and reverse research, it is better to tap your own potential. So that China's chip technology with independent intellectual property rights can develop with strong financial support. It may take a long time, but what you can get is priceless. After all, sometimes your hard power is the capital to speak.